When I search for anything on Google or DuckDuckGo, more than half of the results are useless AI generated articles.
Those articles are generated to get in the first results of requests, since the search engine use algorithms to index websites and pages.
If we manually curate “good” websites (newspapers, forums, encyclopedias, anything that can be considered a good source) and only index their contents, would it be possible to create a good ol’fashioned search engine? Does it already exist?
Yep. Web indexing (or rather internet indexing) for us started with a notebook (paper and pen version) in the computer room. Later Yahoo and Altavista joined in (we still used the notebook for the good sites, browser bookmarks did not yet exist). But Google, when it still was good, wiped this all off the face of the earth.